I have been asked a few times by email and now in the posts, how BigRigTravels "happened". In other words, what made me design a website like this.
Years back, I came across BigRig.net. It was a website that had one of the very first webcameras inside a real bigrig. It was the kind of webcamera updated images every few seconds. I watched that every chance I had.
At the time I was seriously thinking about getting into trucking myself. (sounds very familiar to what I hear from others today, LOL), so I wrote him an email. He replied.
His name is Steve Newman, and I had a chance to meet him a few years ago in Texas. He also is a meteorologist, and he is the author of EarthWeek, a syndicated news section in many major magazines and newspapers about what happened weather-wise the prior week around the world.
Eventually I did get into trucking, and brought along his idea of the webcam and expanded it to include my love of photography.
I wasn’t convinced my photography was worth showing on the web, so the full idea lay dormant until in December of 2007, when I came across the TexasEscapes Online Magazine. I decided to contribute some photos I had made one of their featured towns. The editor really liked my photography, and I have since been a regular contributor for them. He and I are now good friends, and additional benefit.
That encounter caused renewed interest and my hope of actually making a success of my own website using a live Truckcam combined with a place to feature my photography. February 1st, 2008, BigRigTravels was launched. Making it into a travelogue as I toured the country was a natural spin off. I am naturally drawn to the small towns of America and they are my favorite specialty. Having my truck Kat companion along has drawn in animal lovers. She has been a surprise her whole life!
BigRig.net has long since vanished, and Steve Newman no longer is in trucking that I know about. If you’re out there Steve Newman, “A big howdy to ya from somewhere in America!”
Hopefully, I can continue where he left off and be a positive influence on the truckers of tomorrow. And bring enjoyment to those who are shut in due to illness or otherwise unable to travel the roads of America for themselves.
Years back, I came across BigRig.net. It was a website that had one of the very first webcameras inside a real bigrig. It was the kind of webcamera updated images every few seconds. I watched that every chance I had.
At the time I was seriously thinking about getting into trucking myself. (sounds very familiar to what I hear from others today, LOL), so I wrote him an email. He replied.
His name is Steve Newman, and I had a chance to meet him a few years ago in Texas. He also is a meteorologist, and he is the author of EarthWeek, a syndicated news section in many major magazines and newspapers about what happened weather-wise the prior week around the world.
Eventually I did get into trucking, and brought along his idea of the webcam and expanded it to include my love of photography.
I wasn’t convinced my photography was worth showing on the web, so the full idea lay dormant until in December of 2007, when I came across the TexasEscapes Online Magazine. I decided to contribute some photos I had made one of their featured towns. The editor really liked my photography, and I have since been a regular contributor for them. He and I are now good friends, and additional benefit.
That encounter caused renewed interest and my hope of actually making a success of my own website using a live Truckcam combined with a place to feature my photography. February 1st, 2008, BigRigTravels was launched. Making it into a travelogue as I toured the country was a natural spin off. I am naturally drawn to the small towns of America and they are my favorite specialty. Having my truck Kat companion along has drawn in animal lovers. She has been a surprise her whole life!
BigRig.net has long since vanished, and Steve Newman no longer is in trucking that I know about. If you’re out there Steve Newman, “A big howdy to ya from somewhere in America!”
Hopefully, I can continue where he left off and be a positive influence on the truckers of tomorrow. And bring enjoyment to those who are shut in due to illness or otherwise unable to travel the roads of America for themselves.
